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Originally Posted by Fuzz
"Native" is a pretty outdated term. Indigenous is more appropriate. But yes. Treaties 6,7 and 8 cover most of Alberta, with the remaining covered by 4 and 10. Those treaties were made with the Crown, before Canadian independence, and before Alberta as a province existed. Those treaties are still legal agreements to which Alberta has zero rights to end or renegotiate, because they are not a party to them. Any attempt for Alberta to seperate would immediately be challenged in court, and defeated. It's one of the reasons this is all so stupid.
The only way for this to happen is for the Crown and all indigenous treaty parties to agree, or violence and war. Clearly given the lack of respect the UCP has shown them indicates they'd have to be dumber than Trump voters to side with the UCP, and then you still have to get The Crown on side, and probably the rest of Canada, too.
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Don't forget the national parks! Smith just went through a whole big thing about how the feds own the national parks and the province does not.
In an attempt to separate those national parks would go back to the feds and then Banff and Jasper would become a part of BC and that big national park that is 1/3 of northern Alberta would probably rejoin the NWT.
Driving around Calgary would be fun. They would need to set up border crossings in the SW section of the ring road as that is on treaty land. At that point, life would be easier for Calgary to separate from Alberta and rejoin Canada.